Age: 53 Work highlights: dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of chemistry at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore.; director of the Science Education Alliance of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase;. tenured faculty member in the department of chemistry at...

Age: 53 Work highlights: dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of chemistry at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore.; director of the Science Education Alliance of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase;. tenured faculty member in the department of chemistry at... (Handout photo courtesy St. Mary's College of Maryland)

Age: 53 Work highlights: dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of chemistry at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore.; director of the Science Education Alliance of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase;. tenured faculty member in the department of chemistry at...